Posted on 10/22/2002 6:08:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Won't make this too long here just throwing out an idea here. The cops were watching this pay phone booth yesterday. 2 illegal immigrants pull up to it and we know the rest of the story. I came up with a theory today that I wanted some opinions on. I am thinking that the 2 men a Mexican and a Guataemalen were probably very common user's of this pay phone. Most illegal immigrants resort to using calling cards to call their homeland and usually early in the morning or real late at night depending on the time change of their country to the U.S..
The sniper cell is obviously traveling in different cars here. Maybe having cased a particular route everywhere there are white vans. These guys are watched for a couple of days and he sees that they use this payphone and have a truck fitting the description. Remember calling cards come up or are traced back to the number of the company that issues the card. Only then can the company trace back to what phone booth a call is made from.
So the sniper cell leaves a message from that phone number days ago after the 6th or 7th shooting. The law finally gets the number down and the message from the tips line as calls 8 and 9 come in. The cell demands money for an offshore account. The law tells them we can't do that for you today.
Is it possible that the offshore account was blackmail or extortion to an account that would funnel much needed money to other cells or an organization that found the means to use this money for funding operations? Ala Al Qaeda which trained in these very things? Electronical terrorism...and a host of other things by use of computers and banks.
I truly believe we are in the next wave here and the color chart is still sitting at code 3. Truly showing how useless it is. Al Qaeda and its supporting groups have had its money stripped from them for the most part and choked off. Is this the new means of getting money? They most certainly trained for this. They most certainly made these threats on our childred over the last year. They have most certainly trained for Urban Terrorism.
We have seen the CNN videos captured from Afghanistan. We have been warned of these types of attacks and methods. Yet, our government is trying its best to distance itself from terrorism. They will not show a picture of the missing French soldier who specialized in sniping so to say.
A French terrorist you say? Well who is sitting and playing our government in VIRGINIA like a fiddle? Moussaoi...the 20th hi-jacker.
Still don't think it is terrorism or Al Qaeda related? Prove me wrong...or add to this thread. Explain to me why the accent and the spelling of these notes is screaming of coming from a foreigner not familiar with the English language.
Prove me wrong or give me a reason why it is not Al Qaeda or terrorism FreeRepublic.com.
Why do I feel as if this country is protecting a certain group of people in this country right now because if the truth came out...the government would lose control of the population and the rest of the population would take matters into their own hands.
God how could we ever do that? Actually fight the war on terror on the home front.
Just do what they tell ya.
You are wrong on this one kennyboy. The perps are still communicating on that phone number with the coppers today.
Just remember that...
White...
Male...
Not an Arab.
In fact, here's a sketch of the suspect... The WHITE suspect...
*We can't get a gander at him. Hardly anybody knows about him. If it is him and Moose & Co. know it, they don't want to spook him because they're trying to close in.
*Rich kid leaves for America and Canada on 'holiday', hasn't spoken to family for months, who report him missing. That rich kid in Florida who flew that twin-prop into that office tower was distanced from his parents, and was a fan of Bin Laden.
*Being new to the US, with no family would leave no friends, employers etc to report strange behavior or absenteeism. Conversely, the people who knew him most, his french colleagues, picked up on the connection very rapidly and reported it to the deans. Evidently, they knew his profile: it 'seemed like something he'd do.'
*His motivation? A higher position in Islam. He might be building a resume to a future employer.
*The French have heavy investment in Iraqi oil: he might have much opportunity to consort with Iraqi Biggies.
There's more...
The fact is, that we do not know and the cops are just now starting to learn. I see this thing playing out soon or the perps will vanish. Let's all hope and pray the perps make the big mistake soon.
That was my thought as well.
At 7:10 p.m., Moose made the first of his five public appeals to the attacker:
"To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night, you gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided."
Monday morning, a person police believe to be the sniper called again, according to sources. This time police traced it to telephones in the vicinity of an Exxon station in suburban Richmond.
Police dispatched a SWAT team to secretly watch the area. By about 8:30 a.m., an undocumented worker pulled a white minivan up to the phone and started making calls. Another man, also a laborer in this country illegally, was waiting nearby.
Some minutes later, local police decided to move in and grab both men, in a scene that was carried on cable news networks and for a short time provided hope of a break in the frustrating case.
This is from a Wash comPost article just posted by kristinn. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2317-2002Oct22.html
I believe about a third of what's in it.
He'll be caught because the little old lady living next door will notice that her secretive, foreign-looking neighbor, who drives a leased white van, is always gone whenever a shooting takes place and never goes anywhere without his duffle bag.
I think you are right about multiple cars. I think the white van is a mis-lead. Perhaps they try to act near a white van to mis-direct attention to an innocent. Notice the van has changed types? Sometimes its a chevy van, sometimes its a box truck.
I don't watch much network news, so I don't have any clue on the notes/communication. But I think this is going to be a mis-lead also. Tie up the police leaders on trying to jump ahead of a non-existant cry for help or word game.
I think this is about terror. Perhaps a desperate stranded AQ cell. Having no orders or communication, they act in the only way they know how. They watch the news, and analyze the response of the experts. Tune their next attack with the new intel. With the upside of possible funding for more terror.
The French have been in communication with their deserter, and the focus is off him. The topic at work today was that no Frenchman was bold enough to be a sniper. Then it came out that the French deserter is a Yugoslav.
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